Provincial will be shutting down over the Christmas break like all the other builders, but my fantastic site supervisor has mentioned that bricks should be completed and gutters and eaves may even be finished. Roof tiles are planned to start in early January.
I did notice that the rear of the house and one wall has less articulation joints than on the plans or as is required on the construction plans and as per the building standards. to put it loosely and briefly without quoting the guidelines, you are supposed to have an articulation joint every 6 meters on a wall. I reckon that working through the storms of last week they probably forgot to put them in. I'll see what the SS says but he did mention they sometime vary where they are. I do know that a waffle pod typically moves more than a raft slab, so maybe this is why they chose to use fewer joints, but the decision should ideally lie with an engineer.
Other than that issue everything else looked really well done, the brick layers seem to be doing a quality job.
I'll have to check with my SS to see if termimesh was installed as well.
One good thing I noticed is that the stacker doors as standard have tracks to add fly screens in later, I didn't check this at tender stage but it's great to know Provincial specifies it when you add them in.
Couldn't see any articulation joints along this wall, they may not be needed.
What an articulation joint looks like, the join over the door.
No articulataion joints that I could see along this wall, but when I zoom in on the photo (finally this DSLR came in handy). I can see one at the joint where the corner is. I don't know if more are required by engineers or not. On the plus side the brickies are nice, and neat and everything looks pretty damn straight.
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